The Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Abune Mathias, called upon everyone to fulfill their duties in ...

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) has called on the entire community to promote mutual cooperation for lasting peace and national development.

Ethiopians follow the Julian calendar, which runs 13 days later than the Gregorian calendar, used by Catholic and Protestant ...

Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia follow the Julian calendar, which is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar used by Catholic ...

On Thursday, believers gathered in a large public plaza in Addis Ababa for rituals ... BBC Michele Spatari / AFP During the celebration Abune Mathias, the patriarch of Ethiopia's Orthodox Church ...

It is a tactic commonly used in the country - which has a population of 115 million - though rarely in the capital, Addis Ababa ... say the patriarch, Abune Mathias, has not been on good terms ...

The US needs to keep troops deployed in Syria to prevent the Daesh group (also known as ISIS) from reconstituting as a major threat following the ouster of Bashar Assad’s government, Defense Secretary ...